Just a note for comment. Even with TMPGenc, an MPEG2 encode with dark areas and motion have some weaknesses and artifacts when you get down below 6000k average bitrate. Wanting to fit more than 90 minutes on a DVD5 I went searching for answer without spending a heap of dollars on hardware encoding. I needed to get a clean picture at about 4000k average bitrate.
The DVD spec allows for an encode at 352x480 instead of 720x480. That is less horizontal resolution than SVCD, but the bit rate is much higher. I ran a clip at 352x480 at 4000k average bits. The result on my pioneer 333 DVD player and basic NTSC TV was a very clean picture with no artifacts and no disernable difference in picture from a 720x480 6500k average bit rate clip.
Has anyone else run tests with this on other hardware and TV's and what do you get? Particularly does it screw up digital TVS? It looks great here and I get 2 hours on a DVD5 still using software encoding.
The settings were MPEG2, 352x480 2 pass var bit rate, 8000k max, 4000k avg. 8 bit DC normal motion search, mpeg standard quantize and default GOPs.
This may be my answer until I can burn DVD9's at home.
Keith
The DVD spec allows for an encode at 352x480 instead of 720x480. That is less horizontal resolution than SVCD, but the bit rate is much higher. I ran a clip at 352x480 at 4000k average bits. The result on my pioneer 333 DVD player and basic NTSC TV was a very clean picture with no artifacts and no disernable difference in picture from a 720x480 6500k average bit rate clip.
Has anyone else run tests with this on other hardware and TV's and what do you get? Particularly does it screw up digital TVS? It looks great here and I get 2 hours on a DVD5 still using software encoding.
The settings were MPEG2, 352x480 2 pass var bit rate, 8000k max, 4000k avg. 8 bit DC normal motion search, mpeg standard quantize and default GOPs.
This may be my answer until I can burn DVD9's at home.
Keith